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Everybody, welcome to Vince on a Wednesday. Great to have you with us as always. We're going to dive into the latest today on the push to get the SAVE act across the finish line. You know, there are United States senators who don't even actually know the rules of the Senate. They had to be given an instructional class yesterday at the Senate. I, I'll explain the latest on that subject and, and our efforts to get this across the finish line. We've got a list of names, the good guys right now who are joining in the fight to get the same act passed. I'll, I'll share that with you. What I'm hearing from the United States Senate as well. Also, I was able to get a question in to the White House yesterday about all of this. We have a lot to discuss on that front. And then when it comes to immigration enforcement, we've had a big hearing yesterday in the United States Congress where you get all of the top immigration enforcers appearing before these House members. Republicans for the most part, asking perfectly decent questions. Democrats, hair on fire, insanity. I've got the details on all of that ahead on our program. And then some late breaking developments overnight in the search for Nancy Guthrie. A flurry of activity yesterday as a case that really wasn't moving anywhere for over a week has now suddenly got a lot of action on it. I've got the details all ahead on this edition of Vince, so great to have you with us as always, appreciate you, appreciate you and our great sponsors. You know, that includes Beams, Dream Powder. I love Beam. Beam's great. Beam helps me sleep. They really do. February is a great month for a million different reasons and it's a short month. We get through it really quickly. February has got a way of separating the good intentions from real habits. 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So with my discount code, this Vince show, you can get their bestselling dream powder. Just 39 bucks. Go to shop beam.comvinshow. What a day. What a day. What a day. Yeah. Okay, so programming note for you tomorrow on the program, the great Sean Farish is filling in for me. If you treat him nicely, by the way, live chat, he might do the Trump impression for you. So that's the key. Treat him nice and he's going to do a good job. Yeah, no, he'll do wonderful. Sean's fantastic. So you'll see Sean on the program tomorrow, Thursday. That's because that's recovery day for me. I'm doing a surgery this afternoon. We'll, we'll do it real fast. It'll be fine. My wife says, take the day off the next day. I said, okay, fine. So that's what's going on. I'll be back Friday. I'll be back Friday on, on all the shows. It'll be great. It'll be really great. And thank you for everybody who's, you know, sending me prayers and all sorts of kind thoughts. Thank you for that. I appreciate you as always. Let's see, what do we got going on in the world right now? Well, the big thing that you and I have been pushing so hard for, I feel like this is a meeting where we all get together to talk to plot the latest push to get the SAVE act through. We're talking about the SAVE Act a lot. And there's a reason for that, because we are convinced that there is some possibility that this thing can get across the finish line. And also, we sort of love our country. So we really want things to come to come to pass that actually help us make it great again. As a famous president once said, that's what we want. And so yesterday in the United States Senate, Mike Lee, who has been, well, he's been a standout candidly on this fight. He's the, he's the key sponsor in the Senate for the SAVE Act. He has been a part of this push to get these US Senators to actually enforce the rules of the Senate. In other words, just get everybody to do a standing filibuster, bring everybody to the floor, force the Democrats to verbally filibuster this thing. And then when they get all tuckered out, throw them out of the room and vote to pass the SAVE act to get it across the finish line. But here's the problem. And I, and I said, I've said this on other shows and I just want to once again re emphasize a detail. There are United States senators who don't even know what the rules of the Senate are. They didn't even know that this power was available to them and that it's been available to them as long as the Senate's been around. They didn't know that all they needed to do was go to the floor, establish a quorum and pass this. This is how sclerotic and sort of wasted away the Senate is that they don't even know what powers they have access to anymore. They've spent so little time doing the actual job that they think that not doing the job is what the job description is. It's not. And the reason I can say this with some confidence is because Mike Lee gives this presentation yesterday at the Senate lunch and you've got, according to reports from places like Punchbowl, which are a, it's a congressional reporting operation, they say that the Republicans that were in the room who didn't even know how any of it works. What? This is crazy. Listen to this. This is Andrew Desiderio with Punchbowl. He said the following on X yesterday. Lately. Late yesterday at the Senate Republican lunch, Senator Mike Lee gave a presentation about the SAVE Act. Robert Duncan, Thune's floor secretary, John Thune's floor secretary, gave an overview of how the talking filibuster would work. Well, that's promising. I'm glad to see Thune's people are involved in this conversation. Andrew says that it was mostly informational and according to one attendee, so one would assume when you say attendee, you mean a Republican senator, quote, nobody really knows how this stuff works. Nobody knows. It's, it's built into the Senate. This is Schoolhouse Rock stuff. What? You don't know how it works? This is maddening, but we're going to have to drag them across the finish line and tell them how to operate inside of their own congressional body. Yes. Senate Republicans all got together yesterday to discuss the SAVE Act. They're in the talking filibuster, which is good. They still don't have enough support within the conference to go down that route right now to circumvote the 60 vote threshold according to this Punchbowl reporter. In other words, they don't even have the simple majority support yet to get this thing across the finish line. Now, the fact that they're even doing this at all is a sign of your success. The fact that these Republicans are gathering right now is because the pressure that you are placing on the Senate right now is working. It's clearly working to the point that they're freaking out about it, trying to figure out what do we do, how do the rules even work. They're getting briefings from John Phoon's guy. Mike Lee is trying to teach everybody about this. So it's not that the conversation is being ignored, it's that it can't be ignored. So right now they're trying to figure out how do the, how do we contend with our own base that desperately wants to get this across the finish line? Mike Lee offered us an update just ahead of the lunch yesterday and hopefully we can get some more updates on, on the list here. But he gives us the list. You ready for the list? I'm sure you guys love lists. You love the names to know who's on my side, who's against me. Let's just cut right to the chase. Okay, let's cut to the chase. Here's the current Senate sponsor and co sponsor list for the Save America Act. That was as of just before lunchtime yesterday. There are now 38 co sponsors for the Save America act, which means we're still short. We need to get to 50. But here we are right now. It's Banks, Barrasso, Blackburn, Boozman, Brit, Bud, Corn and Cotton, Kramer, Crapo, Cruz, Danes, Fisher, Graham, Haggerty, Holly, Hoven, Husted, Johnson, Justice, Lankford, lee, Loomis, Marshall, McCormick, Moody, Moran, Moreno, Mullen, Paul, Ricketts, Rounds, Rick Scott, Rish, Schmidt, Sheehy, Tuberville and Young. By the way, where's Tim Scott? I see R. Scott. I don't see T. Scott or F. Scott Fitzgerald for that matter. But he's not a senator. Okay, so we've got a lot of, we've got a lot of names, but we need more. Mike Lee says we continue to add more, more every day and hope to be at or above 50 by the end of this week. By the end of this week. So that's Mike Lee. Sounds like a little optimistic, but this is good. Keep giving us the names. I love this. I love like not having this cover of darkness nonsense where, you know, because a lot of what happens in the Senate candidly is they just basically hope you forget about it, that you get worn out, that your filibuster ends, that you stop paying attention and Then they can move on to other things. But no, we're going to continue the filibuster until you get this thing across the finish line. I use that expression a lot. Get this across the finish line. I should. I should add some variation there. So who's against this thing? Who's. Who's coming out against it? Well, Lisa freaking Murkowski has come out against it. It's not a surprise, but it is appalling that Lisa Murkowski is against this. And she announced yesterday. She. She put out a statement on this subject, which is insane. Oh, I. Oh, Oh, I. Oh, I love this. Oh, my gosh. This is even better than I realized. All right, here we go. Lisa Murkowski comes out against the SAVE Act. And here's what she said. She said, when Democrats attempted to advance sweeping election reform in 2021, Republicans were unanimous in opposition because it would have federalized elections. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to unpack the duplicity of all of this. Just bear with me. She said Republicans were unanimous in opposing. This is Nancy Pelosi's for the people act in 2021 because it would have federalized elections, something we have long opposed. Now I'm seeing proposals such as the SAVE act and MEGA that would effectively do just that. Once again, I do not support these efforts. Not only does the US Constitution clearly provide states the authority to regulate the times, places, and manner of holding federal elections, but one size fits all mandates from Washington, D.C. seldom work in places like Alaska. Election day is fast approaching. Imposing new federal requirements. Now, when states are deep into their preparations to would negatively impact election integrity by forcing election officials to scramble to adhere to new policies, likely without the necessary resources. Ensuring public trust in our elections is at the core of our democracy. But federal overreach is not how we achieve this. End of statement. That's it. So Lisa Murkowski comes out and she says a couple of things. She says, well, in 21, we were against Nancy Pelosi federalizing elections, so we should be against that. Now. This is bull crap. This is utter garbage. Let's do a fact check here. Because she says, well, the Constitution tells us that really it's. The states clearly provides states the authority to regulate the times, places, and manner of holding elections. Hmm. All right, so here's the fact check. False. The plain text of the Constitution, which I have to keep reminding actual members of Congress of every passing day. The plain text of the Constitution, the Article 1, Section 4, Clause 1, says that Congress may at any time, by law, make or alter such regulations except as to the places of choosing senators. In other words, Congress can get involved in how elections are administered when necessary. In fact, this inclusion in the Constitution was heavily debated when the Federalists were advocating for the Constitution to be passed. At the time in the Federalist Papers, Alexander Hamilton, writing under the name Publius, said that this was essential to the preservation of the Republic. This had to be done. Let me just show you. This is federalist59. I can't look at this. I got to do a history lesson. I got to teach Lisa Murkowski about our country. You ready? This is. Look at this. So in Federalist 59, it references this detail that the United States Congress may at any time by law, make or alter such regulations. Okay, now why is that in the Constitution at all? Hamilton says. He goes, I'm that the reason for this is that this is one of the most important inclusions in the entire Constitution. Its propriety rests upon the evidence of this plain proposition that every government ought to contain in itself the means of its own preservation. Let me put that differently. In other words, if the states start to become completely out of control, if they're just rigging all of their elections and they're trying to upend national governance, the people of the United States, the rest of us, have to have a means to get everything back under control. And that would be Congress intervening. So that's what Alexander Hamilton is talking about here. He goes on. He says, this is. This is probably one of my favorite lines actually, from this Federalist paper. He says, nothing can be more evident than that an exclusive power of regulating elections for the national government in the hands of state legislatures would leave the existence of the Union entirely at their mercy. They could at any moment annihilate it by neglecting to provide for the choice of persons to administer its affairs. If the states rig their elections. Let me put this more bluntly. If Democrats are rigging elections in the states that they control across our country, they could, quote, annihilate our Union. Hamilton said. In other words, he mounted a ferocious argument on behalf of Congress playing a role here. Is the state supposed to administer the election? Yeah, they're supposed to set it up correctly. But if they screw it up, we have to have a means to step in. And finally, here's what he also says. I want to make. I want to jump to this part. This is the very end of this Federalist paper. With so effectual a weapon in their hands as the exclusive power of regulating elections for the national government, a combination of a Few such men in a few of the most considerable states where the temptation will always be the strongest. Think states like New York, California, Democrat run states. Massive populations might accomplish the destruction of the Union by seizing the opportunity of some casual dissatisfaction among the people in which perhaps they may have themselves excited. Does this sound familiar at all? Democrats whipping people into a frenzy to justify rigging elections, to justify removing their political opponents from ballots, prosecuting them, attempting to disqualify Donald Trump entirely from elective politics, to discontinue the choices of members for the federal House of Representatives. It ought never to be forgotten that a firm union of this country under an efficient government will probably be an increasing object of jealousy to more than one nation of Europe. Hamilton said of Europe at the time. Now we can say safely of the entire world and that enterprises to subvert it will sometimes originate in the intrigues of foreign powers and will seldom fail to be patronized and abetted by some of them. He goes on to say, of course, this is why we need the people of the United States to protect our elections. Now, what is Hamilton talking about here when he says that these foreign powers are going to meddle in our elections? He's talking about these countries that will seek to undermine us. They're going to try and interfere. They're going to try and find gaps in our election system to interfere with us. Is that happening at all? Well, I don't know. Do you have foreign countries who are delivering their citizens to our country to have babies in order to, as far as you and I are concerned, unconstitutionally make them American citizens and then subsequently perpetually interfere in our elections? That's definitely happening is do you have Chinese connected billionaires who are sowing discord in the United States by funding some of the insurgencies we're seeing in places like Minnesota right now? That's definitely happening. Are there foreign adversaries like, say, Iran, China, Russia, who do seek to interfere in our elections, and we should seek to do what we can to safeguard against any sort of foreign interference whatsoever? Those things are definitely happening. In other words, Hamilton detected brilliantly, as usual, what was to come if we didn't protect our union. And for Murkowski, I can't believe this is all starting from a Lisa Murkowski tweet, but I'm going to educate this woman. We're going to teach her how this all actually works. Murkowski to come out and say, back in 2021, I opposed. Republicans opposed. Unanimous in opposition. Unanimous in opposition to Nancy Pelosi's Efforts to federalize elections. There are two massively dishonest points being made here. Massively dishonest. Pelosi's efforts to interfere in the elections in 2021 were not designed, as Hamilton would have, to safeguard the election. Instead, they were designed to make the election less secure, less credible, less believable because Nancy Pelosi was attempting to rig the election. Now, I've showed this op ed before, but it bears repeating, especially if you're the. If this is the first time you're seeing this, or certainly it's so we can condense all of this together. But this is what the Wall Street Journal said at the time about Nancy Pelosi's push to federalize elections for real. She wanted to make every election like 2020. It's called HR1, and it was packed with garbage. HR1 is packed with provisions. The the article says that would federalize election rules to dubious result, unsettled, longstanding practices and security measures that local officials think are prudent, undermine public confidence and increase the odds of contested outcomes. It would have made mail in ballots the rule of the land. No excuse necessary. You don't have to prove your ID anywhere. Ballots could be taken 10 days after election Day. You can't get your ballot in on time. So 10 days after election Day, we still wouldn't know the result of an election until well after a week beyond election Day. The whole thing is crazy. Designed wide open to fraud. Fraud. So of course Republicans should have opposed that in 2021, but they didn't unanimously oppose it. Despite what Lisa Murkowski is claiming. This is what this is the new addition this morning that I think is so funny. I didn't realize this until we started the program. You ready for the community Note on Lisa Murkowski's ridiculous statement. Readers added context on X. Senator Murkowski voted to advance the 2021 voter reforms that she references here. She was the only Republican to do so. Murkowski voted for it. So in her lies about the Constitution, in her lies about what Republicans who actually care about this country are attempting to do, in her lies about what you and I want to achieve for our country, she lies about her own role. She supported pushing Nancy Pelosi's election takeover in 2021. Oh, my goodness, Alaska. First of all, get rid of ranked choice voting. Second, get rid of Lisa Murkowski. Please give us a real Republican conservative senator from that state. Please, I beg of you. Much more to come here on the program. A lot more to come. Was that okay? Chad? Do you mind going through the Federalist Papers? I know it's not the biggest podcast thing to do. Everyone's like, you know, was it, we got, oh, this is a crazy thing. You got to watch this wild video. Now I'm going to take you through the Federalist Papers because, you know, the founders kind of had a vision and I'd like to restore it to the extent that's even possible. We'd like to restore it. I think I'd like to do that. Yeah, Anyway. That's exactly right. Oh, my gosh. Thank you. People like it. All right, good. All right, good, good, good. Just making sure. Yeah. I mean, because when people come at you and they're like, the federal government's not supposed to have any role in elections. Hold on a second now. You're like Mr. States Rights, you, You deceitful little Democrat. It's like, it's also crazy. It's all power play for these guys. And Lisa Murkowski is a sucker for playing along with it. A sucker. All right, a lot more to get to. Hey, I want to thank the great operation over at Patriot Mobile that loves our country, truly loves our country. And, you know, every day Americans have to make choices that shape our country's future, right down to which cell phone provider we support. Here's what a lot of people don't even realize. Patriot Mobile is not just a wireless provider. They're a Christian conservative organization that sells top tier cell phone service. 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Okay, so Elon Musk has jumped in here too. He says, you know, Lisa Murkowski is ridiculous. He doesn't use those words. But, but those are my words. I'm summarizing Elon here. He says without election integrity, we don't live in a democracy. Now go ahead. You can quibble with his use of the word democracy. Fine, it's a constitutional republic. But the point is well taken. Without election integrity, we don't live in a constitutional republic. That point is true. If you don't have election integrity, you don't have the voice of the people guiding our governance, which is what the founder set up. So Elon Musk is right. I'm glad to see Elon jumping into this fight as well. Now, I was able to, you know, I say I Reagan Reese, my White House correspondent, Reagan Reese was able to ask the White House about this yesterday, not about Murkowski, but about the SAVE Act. What are the conversations like right now? You know, we've seen, I told you earlier this week that House Republicans apparently have been hesitating on mail in ballots and restricting those mail in ballots, not hesitating on the mail in ballots, but hesitating on restricting them to only legitimate absentee ballots. And Reagan, on behalf of this audience and Americans who love our country everywhere, ask the White House press secretary about the status of those negotiations with Republicans and where President Trump is right now on the SAVE Act. Here's Reagan yesterday.
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I can't speak for House Republicans, Reagan. I can obviously speak for the president, who is possibly, quite possibly, the strongest supporter of the Save America act, which, as you know, would require proof of citizenship to register to vote. It would require proof of identification, A4 photo identification before casting a ballot, and it would also ensure that there are exceptions made. I think that's what you're alluding to with these conversations with House Republicans for reasonable requests, of course, for our military, for individuals who are disabled and cannot make it to the polls. Those are reasonable common sense things that I believe House Republicans are discussing amongst themselves. But as for the president, he's been very clear. He wants House Republicans and Democrats to, if they were politically wise to pass this legislation, for the Senate to pass it, to send it to the president's desk so it can be signed into law.
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A quick follow up. I'm wondering when the last time the president spoke to Leader Thune was and if he discussed using the stand and filibuster to pass legislation. Ms.
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The President has given his position on the standing filibuster. As for his most recent conversation with Leader Thune, frankly, I'm not sure. I do know. They speak very frequently. The president's in Constant communication with both Leader Thune and the House Speaker.
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Mike Johnson, ladies and gentlemen. Yes, thank you. Star wars fan 1977 says, God bless Reagan. Reese Reagan is asking these questions on behalf of you. Reagan goes to the White House. She speaks to the President. She speaks to the White House press secretary. And unlike anybody else in that room, she's keeping her eye on the ball, what matters to the American people. And there she is asking these great questions. And that follows on her previously speaking to the President, I believe it was, on Friday, on asking him whether, whether or not he wants to use the standing filibuster here. And he told you that he does. That's what he want. He wants the standing filibuster. So this continues, this effort continues, These questions continue and this focus continues thanks to your concentrated efforts to get this priority legislation across the finish line, which is really good. Zoid Borg says she always asks some good questions, often ones that other people aren't asking. Yeah, look, I've had, I've had a lot of White House correspondence through the years work for me. Reagan, the latest and the piece of advice that I always give them right at the top, I give them multiple pieces of advice. One of them is don't get sucked into the hive mind in that room. Don't, don't let that happen. And then, because there is a hive mind in that room, and to that hive mind means that a lot of the people who are in that room ask the same question, sort of dumb question over and over and over and over again. And I, my, my basic point has always been, why do we send that many people to the White House press conference if every single person, especially in the front three rows, are all going to ask the same exact question, just using different wording? What's the point of that? There should at least be a different question in the room if they're all going to ask the same question. Don't take up all that space. Just have one person go and do that bit. Meanwhile, there's other real questions that Americans have, like how are we going to protect our elections? And what effort are you undertaking to do that? So Reagan's staying on top of that. That's. That's really good. Yeah, it is a hive mind of stupidity. I completely agree with that. All right, let's. Let's get into some other things. Coming up in a moment, I want to talk to you about this big immigration hearing that took place on the Hill yesterday. Just an amazing, an amazing performance by the guys who are in charge of immigration enforcement in the United States. They have a lot to be proud of, candidly, but Democrats turn this into yet another ridiculous dog and pony show. But the problem is, one of the big problems is not only are they wasting the time of the American people, but they are continuing to stoke the violence that we've seen against ice agents at the most disgusting levels. We'll go through that in just a moment. All ahead on this edition, events. 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I've got this big hearing yesterday in the United States House of Representatives with all these immigration enforcers, and Todd Lyons is the acting ICE director. We don't hear a ton from him, but he's leading a great agency, and they're conducting a very noble mission, which is to restore orders to the United States of America and arrest a lot of bad guys, get them the hell out of our country. Here is Todd Lyons delivering a pretty sobering opening statement yesterday about how tough this work for his guys actually is.
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Before discussing our broader operations, I must address the situation in Minnesota and the dangers that ICE agents and officers face nationwide while the investigations remain ongoing. I'm encouraged that some Minnesota officials are finally signaling the willingness to cooperate with ice. But let me be clear. Promises are not enough. We need action. In the wake of the unprecedented border crisis of the previous administration, ISIS stepped into the breach to enforce the law. This commitment has a cost. We are facing the deadliest operating environment in our agency's history. In fiscal year 2025, death threats against ICE personnel increased more than 8,000%. Assaults on officers have skyrocketed over 1,400%. One officer in Minnesota had his finger bitten off by a protester, egged on by elected officials characterizing our offices as dis Gestapo of secret police. The families of personnel, ICE personnel, have been made to feel unsafe in their homes. I know this first, firsthand, because my own family was targeted. But let me send a message to anyone who thinks they can intimidate us. You will fail. Despite these perils, our offices continue to execute their mission with unwavering resolve. And we are only getting started. ICE remains committed to the fundamental principles that those who illegally enter our country must be held accountable.
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I mean, think about operating under those conditions. And still the reports we're hearing is that ICE in terms of their morale, it's as high as it's been in many years. Because their hands were tied under Joe Biden. They weren't allowed to do their job. They were forced to import people into the country rather than deport people from the country. It's been, it's been a madhouse for them. And here they are under these conditions, under constant threat, constant attempts to assassinate them, assault them. Death threats are coming from every direction. And Todd Lyons is saying, look, these are very dangerous working conditions for these guys, yet they're still doing the job. They're protecting our country. And for that I'm very grateful. I lift up a prayer constantly for the men and women of ice that they can do this job safely and effectively and restore order to our country. Now, despite the fact that he gave that very sober opening statement, it didn't stop Democrats for being full blown lunatics who kept breathing life into the threats against ice. Let's start with ridiculous. Eric Swalwell. Eric Swalwell is a silly man. Eric Swalwell, if there's a superlative for him, is the congressman that I would most like to bully. Yes, that's right. I think, I think everybody would vote for Swalwell. The congressman most in need of bullying, Eric Swalwell. Here he is yesterday attempting to use this ridiculous. So quote this quote Liam Ramos story, five year old boy, remember his father abandoned him as ICE was in pursuit of the dad. They cared for the boy until they got the father into custody, which is the decent thing to do. And of course, what ICE does. And instead a photo of the boy being taken care of by ICE has been used as a weapon against ice. As if they were trying to capture the child and use the child as bait and all this other garbage. Eric Swalwell fell for that crap. And here's. That's what led to this exchange yesterday with Todd Lyons. Considering your honorable service in the past and the dishonorable acts that those who have worked for you have conducted, and the disgraceful statements that the leadership above you have said, you now have a decision. Will you stand with the kids who you're supposed to protect, or will you side with the killers bringing terror to our streets? Mr. Lyons, will you resign from ICE?
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No, sir, I won't.
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Why not?
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Because, sir, that child that you're showing right there. The men and women of ICE took care of him when his father abandoned him in RAN law enforcement. Time is expired.
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He never should have gotten Time is expired. Swalwell's so easy to dunk on, it's hilarious. So Todd Lyons posterizes him yesterday by just telling the truth. We took care of that kid. And this idea that somehow. Are you going to stand with the killers? No, we're arresting killers, you complete jackass. We're the ones who are arresting the killers and getting them the hell out of this country. And the fact is, the more lies you tell, the more threats we're going to have to ice. Dan Goldman is another ridiculous congressman. His daddy bought him his seat, and Dan Goldman, he's a Levi Strausser. He started once again accusing ICE agents of being Nazis, the Gestapo secret police. And it was at that moment that Todd Lyons had to tell him, you have no idea what you're talking about. So why don't you go down the street to the Holocaust muse and get an education in world history before you start accusing the good men and women of American law enforcement of being Nazis. Watch that question.
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No.
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What's.
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I'll tell you what the wrong type actually is, sir. It's Holocaust museum claiming my times. If you want reclaiming my time, Mr. Chairman, not the men and women of ICE that are out there doing it every day. So to say that the men and women of Ise. Mr. Chairman, I'm reclaiming my time.
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I would like my time back, please.
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Please. Give me another 15 seconds. Because he was unnecessarily speaking.
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You said he was very necessarily references.
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To ice, the Gestapo or the secret police.
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Too much encourages threats against ICE agents.
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100.
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The problem is you have done with them. Afterwards, we're done. So. So this guy Goldman saying that these guys are like Nazis. This is their behavior. They're like the Gestapo, the secret police. That guy's a scumbag. That little brat is a scumbag, and he does this all the time. And there he is yet again, given this, like, this defamatory description of ice, these defaming ICE agents. And Todd Lyon says, you have no idea what you're talking about. He takes it. He actually gives us a good faith interpretation that he just is probably ignorant. There's no way he could be that evil. Todd Lyons thinks to himself, you just have to be ignorant. So what you should do is you should go down the street to the Holocaust Museum and learn something about the actual Nazis before you accuse the men and women who are upholding the law passed by this body of being Nazis. You absolute scumbag. That's Goldman. And then there's Lamonica McIver. New Jersey congresswoman, Democrat. She assaulted ICE officers. So yesterday, she decided to use her time on the dais to accuse Todd Lyons of having blood on his hands. And she said, he's going to hell. Listen to this insanity from a woman who assaulted ICE officers. Mr. Lyons, do you consider yourself a religious man?
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Yes, ma'. Am.
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Oh, yes. Okay. Well, how do you think Judgment Day will work for you with so much blood on your hands?
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I'm not gonna entertain that question.
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Oh, okay. Of course not. Do you think you're going to hell, Mr. Lyons?
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I'm not gonna end.
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Of course. How many governments. A gentlelady will suspend.
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Gentlelady will suspend.
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Chairman. A gentlelady will suspend.
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As I said, the issues we're debating here are important to ones that members feel deeply about.
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Thank you.
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While vigorous disagreement is part of the legislative process, members are reminded that we.
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Must adhere to established standards of decorum and debate.
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The witnesses are here voluntarily. And I will continue. Remind. Continue, remind members that while oversight is important, aggressively attacking those witnesses personally is inappropriate and not in keeping with the.
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Traditions of our committee. Mr. Chairman, I'm just asking a question with that. You all. You guys are always talking about religion here in the Bible. I mean, it's okay for me to ask a question, right? She's asking, but let me continue on. I got your notes.
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All right.
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The gentle lady may much. Let me get back to my question. And, Mr. Chairman, thank you. I appreciate you. She's just asking questions. You know, if there's a soul to pray for in that conversation, it's hers. What she just did was evil. That was evil. You know, Todd Lyons is a good man doing a good job, trying to clean up the country, getting rid of bad people who are hurting Americans and She's taking the side of the criminals and then saying that the law enforcement, the guys, the sheepdogs, the guys who are protecting the country, that they're going to hell. It's a perfect inversion of the truth and, and really, really disgraceful once again on display yesterday. And then there's silly Sri Tendar, the ridiculous Indian dude in Congress, the with the bizarro wig. He said that Democrats are going to. He's so stupid, he doesn't even realize what he said. He announced yesterday that the second Democrats are back in power, they're going to prosecute anybody who's enforcing American immigration law. They're going to, in other words, Democrats are going to abuse their power immediately upon regaining it. Here is the embarrassing Democrat Congressman Sri Tanadar yesterday. You better hope so. You better hope you get being pardoned because you will be held accountable for the absolute disregard of the law. Your agencies have shown over the past year that your agencies have lost the trust of the American people with millions.
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Taking to the streets to protect the illegal actions of your agencies.
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And that's why I introduced a bill.
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In the United States Congress to abolish ice. ICE must be abolished.
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He kept, he went on, he kept saying that, oh, is Trump going to pardon you? You guys are all going to get pardons on the way out the door because obviously the, the implied implication is. Implied implication is redundant. The implication is that they're going to prosecute these guys, that ICE agents, ice, ICE directors, ICE officials, they're all going to be prosecuted by Democrats the second they get power back. As SRI Tandra I want to impeach everybody. And as soon as I get power, I'm going to abuse it. I'm going to prosecute you. Thanks, SRI let's keep you away from power. Let's do that. Thanks for saying it out loud. Speaking of what the, the good men and women of ICE have been doing, you know, they've been arresting the insurgents in Minnesota by the thousands. You know that. In fact, that detail's kind of skipped past the entire media with the exception of places like the Daily Caller. Take a look at this. ICE has been dropping the hammer on Minnesota agitators, shadowing agents on the street. This, this is a report from yesterday. Ice, ICE report. Excuse me. Daily Call report from yesterday. United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ICE agents are detaining and arresting legal observers using their vehicles to follow agents during federal enforcement operations. ICE has been reportedly detaining and arresting thousands of Minnesota protesters under Title 18, Section 111 of the US Code, which prohibits citizens from interfering with a federal officer conducting official duties. According to Reuters, A recent trend, of course, had begun among these protesters, these insurgents, to follow ICE agents in their vehicles as quote, unquote, legal observers. The Trump administration has charged at least 655 people using Title 18, which is double in comparison to the same period between 2024 and 2025. DHS spokeswoman Trisha McLaughlin telling Reuters, when agitators willingly involve themselves and inject themselves in law enforcement operations, they are risking arrest as well as jeopardizing the safety of themselves and those around them. So this is a good, this is a very positive sign. You know, things in Minnesota have cooled down a little bit. Tom Holman is there and he's got what appears to be Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Fry and the governor Tampon, Tim Walls, and something of a chokehold. He's getting them to actually turn over illegal aliens that are being taken into custody in Minnesota and as a result has been able to reallocate some immigration resources to other hotbeds of illegal aliens in the country right now. So that's been very productive. And thousands of arrests being made by ICE right now of the people who are stalking them in the streets of Minnesota. That's also a very healthy development in terms of restoring order. So interesting. And I'm glad to, glad to have that. Let's see, I've got, speaking of Minnesota, I've got another thing for you, which is President Trump just announced this week, he did an interview and with Larry Kudlow. Actually, he sat with Larry Kudlow and he was talking about the fraud in Minnesota. And he goes, we still have a lot of these Somalis who are in Minnesota who've committed a lot of fraud. It's terrible what's happened. And they've got this fake congresswoman. He says that's his words, fake congresswoman. He's describing Ilhan Omar, listen to the president of the United States, describe what's happening right now. So you're going to still go after the whole waste fraud? Well, I am in Minnesota. Take a look at Minnesota. So we think it's at least $19 billion of fraud. Medical. Every fraud Somalia has come in here. What they've done to our country, these people, they've come into our country and what they have done with that fake congresswoman, she's so bad. No, we're going to get to the bottom of it. We have. Yeah, we're going to get to the bottom of it. That fake congresswoman, she's so bad, she did commit immigration fraud to get her brother into the country. She married the brother in order to get him in. And that she's kind of, you know, she's got a long track record of being a fraudster. She's worth, like, you know, what is she worth now, $30 million or something. It's crazy how much she's worth now with a wine company that doesn't produce any wine, doesn't sell it anywhere. And now she's absurdly wealthy in a. In a year's time. Somebody answer that. So the President is saying, look, she's a fake congresswoman. She's a ridiculous human being. Now, having said all that, she is ridiculous. And also, she's so poisonous. You see the way she reacted to this Trump clip? So that. That clip of President Trump and. And Larry Kudlow is going around. Look at what she said. Should the Secret Service be involved here? She says this. The leader of the pedophile protection party is trying to deflect attention from his name being all over the Epstein files. At least in Somalia, they execute pedophiles, not elect them. Not elect them. Who was elected here? Trump. He's the leader of the pedophile protection party. She smears. She says they would execute him in Somalia. Well, Somalia is a third world hellhole, and there's a reason we don't live in Somalia. There's a reason we prefer the United States of America, and there's a reason we don't want to become Somalia. Does Somalia have a functioning justice system? Did they just accuse people of being pedophiles and then execute them on the spot? Is that because that's what you're doing? If this is a cultural thing, Ilhan, you're reflecting that culture very poorly because you're conveying that the way to handle the guys you don't like is to kill them. You complete psycho. And also on this thing about Epstein and Trump, it bears repeating the most obvious details in the world, which is that Donald Trump was essential to bringing Jeffrey Epstein down. I've been through this a million times. You know, from President Trump kicking Epstein out of Mar a Lago to helping out the victim's attorney, being the one guy that they could rely on. They place a phone call. He's like, I'm ready to help you. Whatever you need, you call me. That was President Trump throughout all of this. We got another gigantic piece of information to that effect this week, because in the Epstein files, we find out that President Trump personally called the cops on Epstein for being creepy around teenage girls. One of the documents that the Justice Department released this past week showed that President Trump called the police on Epstein to alert them to that he was sexually abusing underage girls. Trump alerted the Palm Beach Police Department of Epstein's actions and told the then police Chief Michael Writer, quote, thank goodness you're stopping him because everyone has known he's been doing this. Writer gave a 2019 interview to the Federal Bureau of Investigation where he recounted all of this. Trump was one of the first people to call authorities when the department began investigating Epstein for sexual misconduct in 2006. Trump also told the police he was, quote, around Epstein when teenagers were present and he got the hell out of there. According to the document, he told the police that they should also focus their attention on Ghislaine Maxwell, who he called evil. Writer revealed this information to the FBI. That was October of 2019, two months after prison guards had found Epstein dead in his cell, according to the memo. So in other words, President Trump is a hero in this Epstein saga and the thanks he gets from Democrats is to smear him. A wrap up smear continues from such venomous people as Ilhan Omar, who's now calling for the execution of the President of the United States. Maybe a Secret Service visit would do her well. Maybe that would help. One last thing for you. We had, we had a small explosion of developments in the Nancy Guthrie saga yesterday, and that is thanks to the FBI and Google working together to produce images from a doorbell camera, a Google Nest doorbell camera that everyone had assumed did not capture footage of the suspect, at least up until yesterday, that Google Nest camera did not have a subscription paid for, we're told by the Guthrie family. Nobody was paying to keep a subscription on it so that it could save the old videos. But according to the reporting we've seen in the last 24 hours, apparently Google went in and their technicians were able to, through some difficult process, at least this is the way it's being conveyed to us, were able to finally secure this imagery and footage and then share it with the public or share with the FBI, who in turn shared it with the public. And that brings us to Cash Patel's post on the subject. He. He posted this yesterday. This was midday yesterday, he said. New images in the search for Nancy Guthrie. Over the last eight days, the FBI and Pima County Sheriff's Department have been working closely with our private sector partners, that would be Google in this case, to recover any images or video from Nancy Guthrie's home that may have been lost, corrupted or inaccessible. The video is recovered from residual data located in back end systems. And so they share the images, and the images here, they show the suspect standing on Nancy Guthrie's porch and approaching the camera. And you can see in all of these images, like, you know, he's holding up foliage to try and block the camera. He's got a little flashlight inside that he's biting on in his mouth that's pointing in the direction of the camera, wearing a ski mask. He's got a jacket with some reflective features on it. He's wearing a backpack. He tries to cover the camera at one point with his hand. And so that, that has produced relatively clear images. It does look like he's got a mustache here, by the way. And, and so everyone, the whole Internet's all buzzing about this thing, trying to figure out who the hell this guy is. Additionally, we actually have video of the guy approaching the camera. And you'll see those. Those of you watching rumble.com Vince, he takes his hand and he tries to cover the camera. It's almost like he didn't know the camera was there. He walks up, he tries to cover the camera with one hand and it looks like his other hand actually dropped, perhaps to press the doorbell itself. Look at this. For those of you watching. His lower thumb goes to press a button he's pushing. Maybe he's pushing the actual doorbell there to try and solicit a response from Nancy Guthrie to get her to answer the door. As he walks up, you can see he looks like he's got a gun holstered. Openly, it's carried. It's almost like an appendix carry. He's carrying it outside of his clothing. Authorities suggesting that perhaps this was an intimidation tactic. He's wearing very thick gloves, by the way. Any of you shooters out there? It looks, or it looks like the gloves are thick. They don't look conducive to actually sticking your finger into a trigger and pulling it. You need, you typically need gloves that are a little more form fitting if you're going to handle a weapon. But there he is on the porch. He's got his backpack. He strolls off, grabs some foliage, and then he takes the foliage, the, the plant material, whatever he, whatever he grabbed out the ground and he tries to use it to cover the camera up. This seems like a very amateurish thing. That's. So that's the footage. That's what the FBI has released. And in case you're wondering, yeah, Google can still access images even if you don't subscribe. Just so you know, that's. That's One of the lessons in all of this. A blood trail has been discovered outside of the home. Fox news reports. They. They talk to sources that tell them that there was a blood trail. Blood droplets discovered on Nancy Guthrie's porch. According to law enforcement, it went from the front entrance of the home to the edge of driveway. Authorities have confirmed the blood belonged to Guthrie. To Nancy Guthrie. It's her blood. That's just awful. You can even see here in the law enforcement photos. Look at that. You can see the foliage on the ground that had been used to try and cover the camera. It's just sitting there, right where the doorbell camera is. So that's. That's the update there. So they took a guy into custody last night. As I was heading to bed last night, I'm seeing all these reports that they took a man into custody. They detained him. He's an Arizona doordash driver who identified himself only by the name Carlos to the media. Basically, cops take him into custody. They had him for a bit, and. And then they released him because I guess they assume he's not their suspect. And Carlos, he talked to the media last night. Here he is being interviewed. A CBS reporter capturing some of this footage explaining what he just went through. Here's Carlos. Watch. Are you shocked? They helped me against my will. They didn't even my rights until two hours later. Okay. You know, my. My wrist is all swollen from. From the. And did you have any idea this was about. Didn't you know. You know, he's this guy. I don't know anything. I don't know anything there. Request. Somebody in the media asked him, like, hey, did you do a. A doordash delivery to that house? And he says he doesn't know. Well, that may be what's going on here. They may have geolocated this dude based on his cell phone. It may. It may have been that very night that he had stopped by. Law enforcement doesn't pick him up for no reason. It's not like they just went and hassled him for no reason. And there are reports that the authorities spoke to one of his relatives, and authorities asked, hey, do you recognize this guy? They showed them. Showed her the image, and she said, well, it kind of looks like his eyes. So maybe that was enough for them to decide, okay, this. This is somebody we should question. They questioned him, and then they let him go. Now, does it mean they're done with him? No, it doesn't mean anything. It just means that they talk to the guy and, you know, they make. They may circle back to him at some point. But for now, a flurry of developments in the Nancy Guthrie case. It seems like now we finally have some very meaningful puzzle pieces, and hopefully they can get to the bottom of this thing really quickly. The President of the United States is very on top of this, to be clear. Caroline Levitt said yesterday at the White House press briefing that they are very eager to get to the bottom of this because it's a horrifying crime against an elderly woman, and the president wants to see it brought to justice and wants to see Nancy Guthrie rescued. He's a decent guy. He's a. He's a great president. Glad we have him. And I'm glad I have you. You're the best audience anywhere. You really are. We got a lot more to get to. Would you. Thank you. Lucas MP47 has jumped in on Spotify and followed. Thank you for that. If you. If you wouldn't mind following on Spotify, if that's something that you've got some bandwidth for. I'd appreciate the. The click and the download on the podcasts there on Spotify. You know, whatever we can do to get up there. I want to help Dan out because poor Dan is all by himself at the top and he really needs company up there. You know, Joe Rogan's not going to cut it. Seems like a nice guy, but come on now. Dan needs one of his boys to show up. I'll be there for him. Let's do that. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you again. Sean Farish is going to be with you tomorrow on the show. He's filling in for me. I'm taking. I'm up. I'm not on the radio show today. I'm not on the radio show tomorrow. I'm taking those off. And then Sean's filling in on the podcast in the morning. I'm off to the hospital here and I don't know, whenever my wife takes me. We're going soon and. And we're going to knock out a quick surgery. It's going to be totally awesome. It's going to be wonderful. And then I'll be right back with you on Friday. We're going to have huge shows for you. I promise. I'll have all this time laid up just staring at the news and obsessing over what I'm going to talk about with you next time I see you. Thank you very much. Great to chat today. Appreciate you. Always make sure to tune in to Dan, tune in to Haley, subscribe to all of it. Talk to you again. Soon. It's tax season, and at LifeLock, we know you're tired of numbers, but here's a big one you need to billions. That's the amount of money and refunds the IRS has flagged for possible identity fraud. Now here's another big number. 100 million. That's how many data points LifeLock monitors every second. If your identity is stolen, we'll fix it. Guaranteed. One last big number. Save up to 40% your first year. Visit lifelock.com podcast for the threats you can't control. Terms apply.